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ON THE OCCASION OF 



THE BURIAL 



P J Ames A. Garfigld^ 



Twentieth President of the United States, 



OBSERVED AT NEWARK, N. J 



September 26th, 1881. 






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RECORD. 



September 20. 



In accordance with a special call made by Samuel S. 
Sargeant, President, the Board of Directors of the Board 
of Trade of the City of Newark met in their rooms, 764 
Broad street, at 8 P. M. Of the Directors, the following 
gentlemen were present : Samuel S. Sargeant, President 
of the Board ; George A. Halsey, Vice-President ; 
Thomas B. Peddie, William A. Righter, Dr. C. S Stock- 
ton, Col. E. L. Joy, William H. Baldwin, George B. 
Jenkinson, Henry M. Crowell, Frederick S. Fish, P. T. 
Ouinn, Secretary. By special invitation, the following- 
named gentlemen met with the Directors: William H. F. 
Fiedler, Mayor of the City ; William H. Francis, State 
Senator; Dr. H. H. Tichenor, Oba Woodruff, William O. 
McDowell, A. M. Holbrook. Charles H. Harrison. Mr. 
Sargeant, in calling the meeting to order, spoke in feeling 
terms upon the death of the President, and stated that 
the meeting of the Directors had been called for the 
purpose of inaugurating a public demonstration of 
bereavement, and that invitations had been sent to his 
Honor, the Mayor, and several prominent citizens, to 
meet with the Directors, in order that the citizens in 
general and the Board of Trade might act in concert. 
Mayor Fiedler, on the part of the citizens, spoke of the 
great sorrow all felt, and said he would be glad to 
co-operate with the Board of Trade in holding memorial 
services on Monday, the 26th, the day appointed for the 
burial of the President ; that he intended to order .ill the 



public offices and schools closed on that day. Appropri- 
ate remarks were made by Hon. Thomas B. Peddie, Col. 
E. L. Joy, and others present. Dr. C. S. Stockton offered 
the resolution, " That a memorial service be held on the 
day of the funeral of our late President ; and that the 
Mayor of the City, the President of the Board of Trade, 
and the Hon. Thomas B. Peddie, be a committee, with 
power to add to their number, to make all necessary 
preparations for said memorial services." This resolution 
having been agreed to, the committee of three named in 
the resolution withdrew, and subsequently reported that 
they had added to their number the following gentlemen : 
George A. Halsey, Dr. C. S. Stockton, August A. Sippel, 
W. E. Pine, W. A. Righter, Judge F. H.Teese, Dr. H. 
H. Tichenor, Col. E. L. Joy, W. H. Baldwin, F. S. Fish, 
Judge F. A. Johnson, C. Nugent, L. Graf, George B. 
Jenkinson, John Dwyer, Dr. F. Ill and Oba Woodruff, 
and announced that a meeting of this Committee would be 
held in the Board of Trade rooms on the following morn- 
ing, at 10 o'clock. 

September 21. 

The Citizen's Committee met in the Board of Trade 
rooms at 10 A. M. The following gentlemen were pres- 
ent : Mayor Fiedler, Judge Teese, F. S. Fish, Finlay A. 
Johnson, C. Nugent, Wm. H. Baldwin, S. S. Sargeant, Dr. 
C. S. Stockton, A. A. Sippel, Wm. A. Righter, Thomas 
B. Peddie. Mayor Fiedler was elected President, and F. 
S. Fish Secretary. Senator William H. Francis, William 
O. McDowell, A. M. Holbrook, H. M. Crowell, C. H. 
Harrison and J. E. Fleming were added to the Com- 
mittee. It was decided that the services should consist 
of a demonstration in the nature of a parade and a mass 
meeting ; that the following sub-committees should be 
appointed by the Chair : Finance, Hall and Decorations, 



Speakers, Music, Invitations and Parade ; that Lieut. - 
Col. E. W. Davis be invited to act as Grand Marshal, and 
that he be added to the General Committee. The 
following address to civic and military organizations was 
adopted, and the papers were requested to publish it : 

The Citizen's Committee appointed by the Board of Trade 
to make arrangements for the parade and memorial services in 
honor of our late President, desire to extend to all military and 
civic organizations of the city a cordial invitation to take part 
in such parade, and request them each to send a representative 
to meet with the sub-Committee on Parade (Col. E. W. Davis, 
Chairman), on to-morrow and Friday evenings, at the Board of 
Trade rooms, No. 764 Broad street, at 8 o'clock. The Finance 
Committee, consisting of Messrs. Joy, Halsey, L. Graf, 
Sargeant and Peddie, will be happy to receive contributions 
from all interested. 

It was decided to hold meetings of the Committee of 
Arrangements every evening at 8 o'clock, and every 
morning at 10 o'clock. 

The Chairman announced the following sub-Com- 
mittees : 

Finance — E. L. Joy, George A. Halsey, L. Graf, S. S. 
•Sargeant, Thomas B. Peddie. 

Hall and Decorations — Dr. H. H. Tichenor, John 
Dwyer, F. S. Fish, C. Nugent, William E. Pine, Henry 
M. Crowell. 

Speakers— William A. Righter, Dr. F. Ill, Oba Wood- 
ruff, Dr. C. S. Stockton, George B. Jenkinson. 

Music — August A. Sippel, Finlay A. Johnson, William 
H. Baldwin, F. H. Teese, A. M. Holbrook. 

Invitations — Mayor Fiedler, George A. Halsey, William 
H. Baldwin. Col. E. L. Joy, William II . Francis. 

Parade — Col. E. W. Davis, F. A. Johnson, William O. 
McDowell, F. S. Fish, A. A. Sippel, Col. J. E. Fleming. 



PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. 

State of New Jersey, Executive Department: 

The deplorable event, against whose coming the people 
of this country have so earnestly hoped, has reached us. 
James A. Garfield, the President of the United States, is 
dead. He died, not as have so many of his predecessors, 
in the fulness of years, with his labors completed, but at 
the very threshold of the proudest era of his life, in the 
prime of his manhood, and at the hands of an assassin 
who struck but to gratify the basest personal malice and 
the most despicable personal hopes. Such a death is a 
national calamity, and must cause universal grief. In 
detestation of the crime, in admiration of the heroism 
with which the stricken President met his fate, in the 
earnest hope that the Ruler of the Universe may, in His 
goodness and mercy, avert from us any repetition of so 
terrible a misfortune, and in manifestation of the sorrow 
which now fills all hearts, I, George C. Ludlow, Governor 
of the State of New Jersey, do hereby recommend that 
the people of this State do observe Monday, the 26th of 
September, instant, the day appointed for the obsequies 
of the late President of the United States, by draping 
the public buildings in mourning, by the closing of places 
of business throughout the day, and by the assembling 
fof prayer and other appropriate religious services in their 
usual places of worship, at the hour of 1 1 o'clock in the 
forenoon of that day. 

Given under my hand and privy seal at Trenton, this 
twenty-first day of September, A. D. 1881. 

G. C. LUDLOW, Governor. 

Attest — Joseph L. Naak, Private Secretary. 



PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR. 

Newark, N. J., Sept. 22, 1881. 

Whereas, Monday, September 26th inst., has been 
designated as the day when the remains of the late 
President James A. Garfield will be consigned to the 
grave ; and as it is befitting on this occasion to pay a 
tribute of respect for the memory of the distinguished 
dead, who has endeared himself to the hearts of the 
American people, and who has shown on his bed of 
suffering an example of patience and endurance unpar- 
alleled in the history of our country, 

Therefore, I, Wm. H. F. Fiedler, Mayor of Newark, 
respectfully request that in manifestation of public sorrow 
at the national affliction, all citizens refrain from their 
usual avocations, that business be suspended, and all 
places of business be closed on Monday next, throughout 
the entire day, so that every person may have an oppor- 
tunity to participate in the demonstration of grief and 
respect to our late noble Chief Magistrate. 

The offices of the city government are hereby ordered 
closed during that day. 

It is also ordered that bells on all public buildings shall 
be tolled from 2 to 4 P. M., and I would respectfully 
request the church societies in possession of bells to have 
them tolled simultaneously. 

WM. M. F. FIEDLER, Mayor. 



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September 22. 

The Committee on Parade reported the following 
arrangements : 

The procession shall consist of five divisions, which shall 
form at 2 P. M. and move at 2.30 P. M., in the following 
order : The first division on High street, north of Central 
avenue ; the second division on High street, south of Central 
avenue, right resting on Central avenue ; third division on 
Plane street, south of Central avenue, right resting on Central 
avenue ; fourth division on Washington street, south of Cen- 
tral avenue, right resting on Central avenue ; fifth division on 
Halsey street, south of Central avenue, right resting on Central 
avenue. The line of march shall be : down Central avenue to 
Washington street, up Washington street to Broad, down Broad 
to Clinton avenue, to High street, to Market street, to Mul- 
berry street, to Clinton street, to Broad street, and dismiss. 
A feature of this parade shall be a catafalque, drawn by six 
horses led by grooms in mourning. The first division shall con- 
sist of the National Cuard, under command of Maj.-Gen. Plume. 
The second division shall consist of Posts of G. A. R. veteran 
organizations and the catafalque, with Damascus Commandery, 
Knights Templar, as'a guard of honor, under the command of 
Assistant Marshal S. V. C. Van Rensselaer. The third 
division shall consist of all civic organizations, under the 
command of Assistant Marshal John Muller. The fourth 
division shall consist of the Citizen's Committee, orators of 
the day, Mayor, city officials and invited guests in carriages, 
and citizens generally on horseback and in carriages, in com- 
mand of Assistant Marshal James F. Connelly. The fifth 
division shall consist of the children of the public schools in 
vehicles, commanded by Assistant Marshal John S. Hughson. 
The Fire Department shall be invited to parade and compose 
the sixth division, which shall be massed on Halsey street, 
right resting on Warren street, under command of Chief 
Engineer Benedict. The Marshals designated by the Commit- 
tee, and Henry Dengler, were added to the General Committee. 



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September 23. 

A communication was received from Aid. Sandford, 
Chairman of the Fourth of July Committee of the 
Common Council, stating that the carriages engaged for 
the Fourth of July for the Common Council could be 
used on this occasion ; that the bands had been paid, and 
bells were to be rung and salutes fired on the same 
understanding. The Common Council Committee was 
invited to meet with this Committee. 

The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department notified 
the Committee that the Department would participate in 
the parade, with the engines draped. 

The Committee on Music reported that there would be 
at least eight singing societies in line in the parade. 

The Committee on Parade were requested to have 
minute guns fired during the parade. 

The following request was directed to be issued : 

The Citizen's Committee making preparations for the parade 
in honor of the late President Garfield next Monday, desire to 
especially urge all societies intending to participate in the 
parade, to send their names, and the number of men they will 
turn out, to the Committee, at the Board of Trade rooms, No. 
764 Broad street, as early as possible this afternoon, and not 
later than this evening. 

The Freemasons reported they would parade by con- 
sent of authority on Monday about 1,000 strong, in 
regalia and mourning. 

At the evening meeting of the Committee, in response 
to invitation, the Committee on Fourth of July Celebra- 
tion of the Common Council, consisting of George B. 
Sandford, Chairman ; Martin B. Provost, William Bonnet, 
William Carrolton and Adam Turkes, were present, and 
through their chairman, stated that they had passed a 
resolution, tendering to this Committee all the services 



they had contracted for the Fourth of July Celebration ; 
their proffer was accepted, and the members of the 
Common Council Committee were added to the Citizen's 
Committee. On motion, the clergymen of the city were 
invited to take part in the parade, and an invitation was 
sent to one clergyman from each denomination to take a 
seat upon the platform at the evening services. The 
Committee on Speakers announced that Hon. Theodore 
Runyon, Chancellor of the State, had been invited to 
preside at the evening meeting, and Judge C. S. Titsworth 
and Hon. A. Q. Keasbey, United States District Attor- 
ney, to deliver the addresses. 

September 26. 

The day was clear and bright, but intensely hot ; 
During the morning signs of preparations could be seen 
throughout the entire city. All places of business of 
every kind were closed, the ringing of church bells and 
quiet of the city gave an impression that of Sunday. 

At eleven the members of the various denominations 
gathered in their respective churches and held appro- 
priate religious services. 

At one o'clock all the main streets of the city began 
to be filled with marching bodies of men, uniformed 
and ununiformed, some with bands playing solemn airs, 
others moving silently, all wearing the emblem of 
mourning, flags and banners draped. The city itself pre- 
sented a very mournful appearance. During the week, 
owners and tenants of business and dwelling-houses had in 
some instances lavishly decorated their buildings. Prob- 
ably in no other city were the decorations more beautiful 
and impressive. The Parade Committee acted as the Staff 
of the Grand Marshal, Col. E. W. Davis. Promptly at 
the time appointed the head of the grand column moved, 
and in one hour and a half after, the end of the line 



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began to move, the whole procession then marching in 

the following order : 

FIRST DIVISION. 

Platoons of Police ; W. H. Meldrum, Chief. 

Chief Marshal, E. W. Davis and Staff. 

Band. 

Drum Corps, Drums Muffled. 

First Brigade National Guard, colors and arms draped in 

mourning. Brevet Major General 

J. W. Plume, Commanding. 

Fifth Regiment. 

Second Battalion. 

First Battalion. 

Ninth Regiment. 

First Regiment. 

Fourth Regiment. 

The military presented a fine appearance, and as the 
several regiments marched along the line, with the bands 
playing appropriate music, the scene was grand in the 
extreme. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

Band. 

Drum Corps. 

S. V. C. Van Rensselaer, Assistant Marshal. 

Lincoln Post, No. n, G. A. R. 

Hexamer Post, No. 34. 

Band. 

Damascus Commandery, Knights Templar, 

Orlando Greacen commanding, marching 

in the form of a cross. 

Catafalque, 

Drawn by six horses,draped in black and surrounded by 

Sir Knights as guard of honor. 

Drum Corps. 

Phil Kearny Post, G. A. R. 

Garfield Post. 

German Veteran Association. 

Eighth Regiment Veteran Association, 

" Hooker's Old Guard." 



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THIRD DIVISION. 

Band. 

John Muller, Assistant Marshal. 

Uniformed Patriarchs, Newark Commandery, numbering 

one hundred men, Julius Drees in command. 

Band. 

Masonic Lodges, several hundred men in line, 

William D. Kinney Commanding. 

Band. 

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Knights of 

Honor, J. W. Murphy, commanding. 

Knights of Pythias. 

United Order of Red Men. 

Druids. 

Wilkinson Engineer Corps. 

Randolph Light Cuards. 

Halsey Engineer Corps. 

Frelinghuysen Lancers and Engineer Corps. 

Young Mens' Catholic Association. 

Friendship and Benevolent Club, (colored). 

Citizens mounted and on foot. 

FOURTH DIVISION. 

Band. 

Drum Corps. 

James F. Connelly, Assistant Marshal. 

Carriages containing Mayor Fiedler, Chancellor Runyon, 

Congressman Jones, Hon'.T. B. Peddie, Senator Francis, 

Judges, Members of the City Government; Aqueduct 

Board, Trustees of City Home, New Jersey Veteran 

Association, Committee of the Chosen Freeholders, with 

other prominent citizens. 

FIFTH DIVISION. 

Drum Corps. 
John S. Hughson, Assistant Marshal. 
This division consisted wholly of the boys of the 
Public Schools, about seven hundred being in line. 
SIXTH DIVISION, 
D. E. Benedict, Assistant Marshal, 
Was composed of the Fire Department and ex-firemen, 
to the number of about 500 men. 



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The entire line of march was densely crowded by 
citizens and people from all parts of the State, who had 
come to this city for the express purpose of witnessing 
the ceremonies. It is estimated that at least one hundred 
thousand people stood in the streets of the line of march. 
The dense sea of human beings, stretching as far down 
Broad from Market as possible to distinguish, slowly 
dividing towards each curb as the head of the column 
advanced with slow and measured step to the dirge, the 
sombre trimmings of the buildings, the ceasless tolling of 
the bells, the discharge of the minute guns, the reveren- 
tial demeanor of the masses as the catafalque passed by, 
drawn by its six palled horses led by grooms wearing 
deep badges of mourning, the whole guarded by the Sir 
Knights in full regalia, the appearance of rival political 
organizations side by side uniting to do homage to the 
illustrious departed, the aged man with gray hair, and 
hundreds of school-boys marching in line, made a scene 
solemn and impressive — such an one as will never be for- 
gotten till the youngest school-boy in that vast assem- 
blage shall pass away. 



AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE. 



The building, both outside and in, was appropriately 
decorated. The audience filled every part of the vast 
auditorium, many ladies being present. Upon the stage 
were seated about four hundred of Newark's most promi- 
nent citizens. The programme was four-paged, as 
follows : 



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IJamcs jL mttrfitlA, 

Born, Nov. 19, 183 1. 

Inaugurated President, March 5, 1881, 

Assassinated, July 2, 1881, 

Died, Sept. 19, 1881. 



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EXERCISES. 



Introduction of the 

Presiding Officer, Hon. Theo. Runyon, 

By the Chairman of the Committee. 
Dirge, .... Professor Voss' Band. 

Prayer, . . . Rev. J. F. Stearns, D. D. 

Chorus, . . German Singing Societies. 

Max. Braun. Leader, 

"Der Abend Sinkt." — Abt. 
Address,. . . . Judge C. S. Titsworth. 
Music, . . . Professor Voss' Band. 

Quartette, Arion. 

" Porsche nacht Cott !" — Kreutzer. 
Address, .... Hon. A. Q, Keasbey. 
Chorus, . German Singing Societies. 



Max Braun, Leader. 
" Die Ruhe." — Abt. 



Benediction, 
Music, 



Rev. Henry Baker. 
Professor Voss' Band. 



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Citizen'^ Committee. 



I [( in. William H. 

THOMAS B. PEDDIE, 

S. S. SARGEANT, 

GEO. A. HALSI.V. 

DR. C. S STOCK ION, 

AUGUST A SIPPEL, 

WILLIAM E. PINE, 

\VI LLIAM A. RIGHTER, 

FREDERICK H. TEESE, 

DR. H. H. TICHENOR, 

EDMUND L. JOY, 

W. H. BALDWIN, 

F. S. FISH, Secretary, 

F. A. JOHNSON, 

C. NUGENT, 

LEOPOLD GRAF, 

GEO. B. JENKINSON, 

JOHN DWYER, 

DR F. ILL, 

OBA WOODRUFF, 

E W. DAVIS, 



F. Fiedler, Chairman. 

W. H FRANCIS, 
W. ( ) MC DOWELL, 
A M. HOLBROOK. 
H. M. CROWELL, 
C. H. HARRISON, 
J E. FLEMING, 
I W PLUME, 
J S. HUGHSON, 
E. A. CAMPBELL, 
S. V. C. VAN RENSSELAER, 
E. W. BARNARD, 
JOHN MULLER, 
J F. CONNELLV, 
HENRY DENGLER, 
GEO B SANFORD, 
MARTIN B. PROVOST, 
WILLIAM BONNET, 
WILLIAM CARROLTON, 
\I>AM TURKES, 
JOHN BELL. 



Full cJiarge and direct ion of the Platform is delegated to 
Senator Wm. H Francis. 

Full charge and direction of the Hall is delegated to 
F. S. FISH, Secretary of Committee. 



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About eight o'clock, Hon. William H. F. Fiedler, 
Mayor of the City, and Chairman of the Citizen's Com- 
mittee, arose and introduced Hon. Theodore Runyon, 
Chancellor of the State, as Presiding Officer of the even- 
ing. Mr. Runyon, on assuming the chair, in the most 
feeling and eloquent manner addressed the meeting. 
His address, together with those of Judge C. S. Titsworth 
and Hon. A. Q. Keasbey, are herein printed in full. 
After the introduction of Chancellor Runyon, the ex- 
ercises as in the programme were carried out. The German 
Singing Societies under the leadership of Prof. Max 
Braun, rendered each chorus in the most impressive, grand 
and harmonious manner. A quartette from among their 
number sung a most beautiful selection. 

After the address of Judge Titsworth, Mrs. Clementine 
Lasar-Studwell, came unexpectedly upon the stage, and 
in the most feeling and exquisite manner, as only those 
who heard her can appreciate, sung that sublime composi- 
tion of Handel's — " I know that my Redeemer liveth." 
This not being on the programme of exercises, was a sur- 
prise to the entire audience, who listened in breathless 
silence as she poured out her soul in the melody of that 
most eloquent piece of music. Nothing more appropriate 
and touching could have occurred. She was accompanied 
by Mr. S. A. Ward at the organ. 

The addresses of both the orators of the evening were 
most attentively listened to and appreciated by the 
audience. Late in the evening the exercises of the day 
came to a close. A well-executed, complete and eloquent 
tribute to the honor and memory of a martyred President 
endeared in the hearts of fifty millions of people. 



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INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF CHANCELLOR 
RUNYON. 

The nation is sitting in the shadow of a great sorrow. 
Its Chief Magistrate has been removed by death, under 
circumstances unspeakably distressing. By the hand of 
an assassin, he was struck down in the plenitude of his 
powers, crowned with honors, and at the very threshold 
of a promising administration. Through long months, 
while he lingered, the whole nation watched at his bed- 
side in alternate hope and fear, praying that his life 
might be spared. And when at last the end was reached, 
the midnight bells all over the land tolled out the univer- 
sal grief. To-day he has been laid away in his grave, 
amid the sighs of the whole people. Though the 
emblems of sadness, the shrouded flags, the muffled 
drums, the funeral marches and the sable draperies 
impressively attest the popular sorrow — a sorrow so 
universal that it almost is as if death had invaded every 
household — yet it is fit that, as thoughtful and patriotic 
people, we should assemble and give expression to our 
appreciation of the high qualities for which he was dis- 
tinguished, and to our detestation of the act by which he 
was stricken to his death. The chosen of the people, he 
has fallen not only while he was President, but because 
he was President. The blow that struck him, struck the 
whole people also. In his career he illustrated most 
signally and usefully the benign character of our institu- 
tions, and showed how merit, unaided by the adventitious 
advantages of birth or wealth, may make its way to the 
highest honors. He set a valuable example of patriotism 
in the alacrity with which he responded to every call of 
his country, whether to her legislative halls, the field of 
battle or her most exalted and difficult station. He has 



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left a magnificent record of Christian patience, fortitude 
and courage in the last dreadful trial. A world looked in 
upon his bed of sickness and death with admiration for 
his uncomplaining patience, and the unflinching bravery 
with which he maintained the unequal struggle to the 
last ; and the earnest entreaties of the whole people went 
up to God unceasingly for him and his devoted wife and 
family. Now that he is gone— now that our dead is 
buried out of our sight — it only remains to us to give 
voice to our sorrow, to honor his memory and draw 
lessons of patriotism and wisdom from his example. 



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ADDRESS OF JUDGE C. S. TITSWORTH. 

Mr. Chairman and Friends: 

As children and kindred returning from the grave where 
they have laid away the precious dust of the beloved head 
of the family, gather at the homestead to comfort and 
console each other and to consult together for their mutual 
good in future days, so, in like spirit and with such feel- 
ings of kinship, are we assembled here. Sad, indeed is the 
cause of our meeting. A brilliant light has been extin- 
guished. A noble man has passed from earth. The land 
is draped in habiliments of mourning. The world is moved 
to tears. Such an exhibition of genuine grief has no par- 
allel in all history. Have ever before such tender mes- 
sages of true sympathy from all earthly kings and queens 
and princes and rulers came to any afflicted family ? In 
grateful acknowledgement we fervently exclaim : " God 
save Queen Victoria and bless her, and God save and bless 
all kings and rulers." 

The funeral this day, in the beautiful City of Cleveland, 
in the great State of Ohio, has touched humanity. All 
over this broad land business has been suspended, the 
wheels of trade and commerce stopped and the hum of 
busy industry stilled, while all the people, without regard 
to nationality, sect or party, have unitedly and reverently 
bowed around the solemn burial. It is recorded in sacred 
history of Asa, the King of Judah, " whose heart was per- 
fect all his days, that they buried him in his own sepulchre 
which he had made for himself in the city of David, and 
laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and 
divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecary's art ; and 
they made a very great burning for him." So, tenderly 
and mournfully was Garfield buried. Before the suffering 
life was ended, how men and women prayed and verily 



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besieged the throne of sovereign Grace, that his life might 
be saved. Was there ever such earnest praying through- 
out Christendom? The exalted and the humble, all alike 
and everywhere, felt the distress. 

For eighty long days the prayer was ever ascending: 
"O God, be merciful; O God, hear our cry. O Lord, 
spare this precious life." The whole earth made this one 
appeal to high Heaven. And shall we now feel that it 
was all in vain ? No, no, no, — God's ways are not man's 
ways. His wisdom is infinite. We cannot comprehend, 
but we can trust and bow in humble submission to the 
will of Almighty love. My friends, this is not the first 
instance of prayer being heard and apparently denied. 
The blessed Lord, when in the darkness of the Garden 
prayed " Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; 
take away this cup from me; nevertheless, not that I will 
but what thou wilt." This was the cry of the humanity 
of the Blessed One. The Father withdrew his face and 
the prayer was denied. The Divine purposes cannot be 
thwarted by prayer, even though the prayer be offered by 
the Beloved Son. What glorious results have followed 
from the sufferings and death of Christ ! The resurrec- 
tion was thereby proved to man. The life to come made 
plain to every son and daughter of Adam. Salvation 
made possible for every believing soul. Blessings be- 
yond the power of tongues to tell have for these 1800 
years enriched, and will continue to enrich, until '' the 
last syllable of recorded time," human souls, because that 
prayer in the garden was not granted. Who shall tell 
what God in His infinite wisdom and mercy has in store 
for us as a people? Who can tell the blessed outgrowth 
from this death ? Let censorious skeptics be silent 
and see. Shall we murmur now ? Have not the evidences 
been full and convincing that the Sovereign Ruler of 
the Universe has been with our nation in all the past ? Is 



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it not manifest to every thoughtful mind that the landing 
at Plymouth Rock was not by chance ? The hardships 
and privations of the early settlers prepared them and 
their descendants for the struggle of the American Revo- 
lution. The Revolution worked out the problem of 
American liberty and developed the genius through which 
our Constitution was framed, and this new government 
established. Since that day, does not the sound logic of 
events show as conclusively as a mathematical demonstra- 
tion, that the great changes which have taken place have 
been under a Divine direction, to purify and strenghten us 
as a nation ? Were God's favored people more plainly led 
by the cloud and pillar of fire, than have been the American 
people, by His hand ? There have been distracting troub- 
les and bloody seas to cross, but these have always pre- 
ceded grand successes and victories. No cross, no crown, 
is as true of national, as of individual life. 

And to what an eminence have we come among the 
nations of the earth ! The. rights of every citizen, over 
50,000,000 in number, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness guaranteed. The humblest and the proudest 
alike secured. Surely, God has been with us and is with 
us now in this shadow. This affliction has brought us 
very near to each other. The animosities and bitter con- 
tentions which have characterized party strife in the past, 
are buried in the sacred silence of this grave. Let there 
be no resurrection for the evils that have so beset and cor- 
rupted our political life. 

Dispute and strife we must have while minds differ, but 
why not conduct the strife like rational beings, with truth, 
argument and high-minded sense and appeal to the judg- 
ment, the conscience and the heart ? 

Cannot our political differences hereafter be debated 
on a higher plane, so that our elections shall be a manly 
contest for the best policy and the best men ? No more 



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of the low appeals to the base passions of our nature; no 
more of slander and malicious accusation, which tend 
only to mislead the ignorant and the unwary. In this 
matter, as a people we have been greatly in fault, nor 
has one party been less guilty than another. 

It cannot be denied that man}' good men shrink from 
public life, because they are unwilling to subject them- 
selves to the foul vituperations that nomination to office 
so commonly excites. 

If the American people would now resolve that in the 
future, all libelous, false and unworthy denunciation of 
distinguished men, holding public office, and of all 
candidates therefor, should cease, this new-made grave 
would be brilliant with a glory that would fill the nation, 
and our tongues would say in one united voice " Garfield 
died not in vain." 

As did the immortal Lincoln, so has Garfield in his life, 
again illustrated the grand possibilities of American citi- 
zenship. His career is replete with magnificent achieve- 
ment, beginning in the humblest condition, in a lowly log 
cabin, with a garret reached by a common ladder, and end- 
ing in the mansion of the chief magistracy of the nation, 
whence he is borne to his grave, a hero in every true sense, 
on the hearts of all the people of this, if not of every 
land. And this success came to him by his own exertions, 
aided only under God, by a mother's love and the cheer 
of an affectionate wife. Two months less than fifty years 
was the full span of his life, the first half of which was 
spent in toilsome struggle for bread and education, and the 
last half was given to the earnest development of the forces 
of his nature, in the service of his God and his country. 
In every place to which he was called to act, as boy or 
man, on the farm, in the shop, in the school, in the army, 
in the halls of legislation, and in the highest executive 
office of the Government, in the church and in the 
State, he was faithful and true, ripening more and more 



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into the pure scholar, patriot, statesman and Christian. 

That ladder which, as a boy, he climbed to the garret 

of the cabin of his poor widowed mother, on retiring to 

his nightly rest, was significant of his manly climbing in 

his maturer years. He could not rest without climbing. 

" And, moving up from high- to higher, 
Became, on fortune's crowning" slope, 
The pillar of a people's hope, 
The centre of a world's desire." 

It is not for me here and now to speak, except in gen- 
eral terms, of this remarkable man. That he has been a 
blessing to humanity, in his life, and in his death, is writ- 
ten in every beating heart. His dying and death are the 
magnificent flowering of a noble life. 

" Have you heard the tale of the aloe plant, 

Away in the sunny clime, 
By humble growth, of a hundred years, 

It reaches its blooming time ? 
And then, a wonderous bud at its crown 

Breaks out into thousand flowers. 
This floral queen, in its blooming seen, 

Is the pride of the tropical bowers. 
But the plant to the flower is a sacrifice, 
For it blooms but once, and in blooming dies. 

Have you further heard of this aloe plant, 

That grows in the sunny clime, 
How every one of its thousand flowers, 

As they drop in the blooming tipie, 
Is an infant plant, that fastens its roots 

In the place where it falls to the ground ? 
And fast as they drop, from the dying stem, 

Grow lively and lovely around ; 
By dying, it liveth a thousand fold 
In the young, that springs from the death of the old. 

Have you heard this tale, the best of them all, 

The tale of the Holy and True ? 
He dies, but His life in untold souls 

Lives on in the world anew. 
His seed prevails ; it is filling the earth 

As the stars fill the skies above. 
He taught us to yield up the love of life 

For the sake of the life of love. 
His death is our life, His life is our gain, 
The joy for the tear, the peace for the pain 



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Now hear these tales, ye weary and worn, 

Who for others do give up your all. 
Our Saviour hath told you the seed that would grow 

Into earth's dark bosom must fall ; 
Must pass from the view and die away, 

And then will the fruit appear. 
The grain that seemed lost in the earth below 

Will return many fold in the ear. 
By death comes life ; by loss comes gain, 
The joy for the loss, the peace for the pain." 

His distinction is a special encouragement to every dear 
mother and to every loving wife; and what an example 
for youth ! Study his life, my young friends Consecrate 
your lives as did he. Strive to be good in every under- 
taking, and success is sure. 

Be earnest, faithful in duty. Be not discouraged because 
of obstacles ; surmount them. Get on a ladder and climb, 
looking up and reaching up. It matters not how humble 
your birth, or poor your situation, the highest places are 
within your power to attain. 

The life of Garfield speaks to every young man this 
language ; 

" Be just and fear not — 

Let all the ends thou aim'st at 

Be thy country's, 

Thy God's, and truth's 
'Then if thou fall'st, O ! Cromwell, 

Thou fall'st, a blessed martyr." 

Mr. Chairman — One word more. Great and brave and 
good as Garfield was, in all these grand attributes of char- 
acter, I confidently believe that Arthur will prove a most 
worthy successor. In every trust which he has thus far 
borne, he has been found to be as true as the magnet to 
the pole. He is distinguished for his superior intelligence, 
remarkable executive ability and perfect uprightness in 
every walk of life. Let us give him our hearts, and 
earnestly pray, " God bless President Arthur." 



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ADDRESS OF A. O. KEASBEY. 

Fellow-Mourners at the Grave of Garfield: 

It will not be expected that upon such brief notice I 
shall be able to give adequate voice to the emotion which 
has clothed this city, in common with every town and 
hamlet in the land, in the garments of sorrow, and has led 
us forth by one consent, to march in the great funeral 
train of the nation, and now at this closing hour to assem- 
ble here to pay our final tribute to our dead President, 
just laid to his everlasting rest. 

I remember, many years ago, hearing a famous preacher 
struggling with the vain attempt to add force and meaning 
by poor human speech to some manifestation of divine 
majesty and power, exclaim, " as well strive to fix more 
firmly on their old foundations the everlasting hills, by 
binding them with threads of gossamer; as well attempt 
to plant more securely on their ancient bases the pyramids 
of Egypt, by spreading over them a spider's web." 

This seemed to be a figure of rhetoric so extravagant 
as to be almost grotesque, but it is weak to express my 
sense of the futility of attempting to add one other worthy 
note to the grand acclaim of eulogy that has swelled from 
the whole civilized world ; one other throb of sympathy 
for suffering to the universal thrill borne on electric nerves 
from the remotest corners of the earth ; one other stone 
to the mountain monument of fame built by all mankind 
for "Garfield the Good." How shall I attempt it? Of 
what avail would it be to add a ripple to the surges, or to 
seek to gild the gold of human character, refined in the 
crucible of the highest public trust, and in the fire of an 
unparalleled suffering? Shall I recount the story of his 
early days, and tell how from the log cabin in the wilder- 



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ness, beside his father's premature grave, and beneath the 
eye of that noble mother who now totters over his tomb, 
he did 

" Break his birth's mysterious bar, 
And grasp the skirts of happy chance, 
And breast the blows of circumstance 
And grapple with his evil star?" 

Is it not already household knowledge, and will it not for 
ages long be taught by every parent who shall seek to lift 
his child to a higher level by the force of noble examples? 
Shall I relate how at the first tocsin of war, equipped for 
any strife and prepared for any fate, he dropped his books 
— his dear companions — and parted with that heroic wife 
then yearning over him in her young love, and rushed, a 
full-grown warrior, to turn back the enemy from his fatal 
foothold in a border State, and then, with sword and voice 
and pen, upheld his leaders and gave direction to the con- 
test until that critical day of Chickamauga, when, by a 
deed of daring worthy of a veteran, he turned the tide of 
battle and endeared himself for all time to the grand army 
of the Republic ? 

Are not these things not only written in the books of 
the chronicles of that great contest, but prattled in the 
nursery, and taught as part of the history of our country? 

Shall I follow him from the camp to the Capitol — sent 
by those who even then knew that however great in war 
he would be still greater in council ? Or attempt to give 
some faint echoes of that manly voice, or some picture of 
that noble form, as he stood among the elders, year after 
year, and shaped the policy and moulded the destiny of 
his country through the final struggles of the war, and 
through the critical ordeal of reconstruction ? Or tell 
how, when the great work of war was done, its ravages 
repaired, the Union restored, the passions cooled, he still 
stood there, breasting the passing storm of calumny, ever 



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supported by the love of those who knew him best, ever 
renewed in his charge of public trusts, or lifted to a higher 
plane, and ever vindicating with a force and eloquence 
that has never been surpassed, the principles of political 
and financial economy, and the fundamental grounds of 
public policy and conduct, which led us up to the high 
position upon which the whole world looked with admira- 
tion, when his eyes closed upon the scene of his labors on 
the anniversary of Chickamauga? 

Shall I attempt to give an outline of his brief career as 
the successor of Washington and Lincoln, or strive to 
show how well, in the brief months of health allotted to 
him, he pressed on to his high ideal, and fulfilled, so far 
as his brief span permitted, the promises made on the 
fourth of March, to maintain the supremacy of the 
nation, to protect the rights of the enfranchised race, to 
promote the freedom and purity of the ballot, to support 
a sound system of finance and public credit, to exercise 
all constitutional powers and all the forces of the people 
to meet the dangers of illiteracy by the saving influence 
of universal education, to assert the right of the United 
States to supervise any interoceanic canal, to break up by 
law the surviving relic of barbarism, polygamy, in Utah, 
and to promote the reform of the civil service ? 

Alas, the echoes of this noble declaration of purposes 
in his high trust had scarcely died away among the 
columns and arches of the Capitol, when he was borne 
with wasted frame and sealed lips across the very spot 
where they were uttered, to lie beneath the majestic 
dome, so that the people might come and grieve that the 
heart which so loved his country could beat no more for 
her, and the mind so full of lofty thoughts and aims for 
her good had vanished from the shattered frame. 

But why seek to portray, even in outline, the features 
of this striking career of only eighteen years as statesman 



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and President ? What corner of the land is not full of 
his labors? Who can hereafter recite the political history 
of the United States of America from 1763 to 1881 with- 
out at the same time pronouncing his eulogy ? 

Who shall not rejoice hereafter — when time shall inevit- 
ably blunt the edge of national grief and mitigate the 
disappointment for such an end of such a career — that, 
short as it was and bitterly as it ended, it was long 
enough and glorious enough to fix his place forever in 
American history as 

" The man of long enduring blood. 
The warrior, statesman, moderate, resolute, 
Whole in himself, a common good. 
Great in council, and great in war. 
Rich in saving common sense, 
And, as the greatest only are, 
In his simplicity sublime ? " 

Again, shall I, in the vain effort to express the emotions 
which have called us here, strive to depict the features of 
that awful tragedy which has held enchained the thoughts 
and sympathies of the civilized world for all those weary 
weeks, since the shot from the hand of a fiend or a 
madman broke upon the silence of that Summer morning 
and went sounding on around the world ? ■ 

Or follow that manly form stricken to death, to the 
house so full of high hopes and pure affections, but to be 
shrouded in an instant with a pall so strange and awful? 
Or unveil again the arena about which we have all stood 
for months, the tortured witnesses of that scene of the 
strong man wrestling with death — so tragic, so pitiful, so 
fearfully prolonged, with fragile wife and tender children 
involved, as it were, in the same death grasp — that the 
group of the Laocoon in the Vatican becomes a feeble 
image of the horrible reality ? 

Shall I paint that peaceful end beside the sea, when, 
with a last longing gaze across the immensity of the 



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waters, as a dying eye might peer into the spaces of 
eternity, and with the clinging grasp of wife and friend, 
the long agony was over and the unfinished labors done, 
and 

" Fallen at length that tower of strength 
That stood four-square to all the winds that blew ? " 

Or describe that scene which I saw on the mornino- of 
the twentieth of September, when, from all the country 
side, men came with wives and children to gaze upon the 
face which had so long filled their dreams and thrilled 
them with new sympathies, and to see the form of the 
dead President borne to its strange hearse, in which the 
very power of steam was subdued to silence, and the 
great iron wheels seemed to hush their natural sounds, 
and moved with their burden softly away to the music of 
the waves ? 

Shall I follow that rapid, shrouded funeral train to the 
Capitol, where all that was mortal of the twentieth Presi- 
dent of the United States was laid beneath the dome in 
the centre of the scene of his labors — where the people 
whom he served and loved might pay their last tribute to 
his memory, and where the bells should be tolled, 

" And a deeper knell in their hearts be knolled. 
And the sound of the sorrowing anthem rolled 
Through the dome " 

of the Capitol which had so often echoed with his voice 
lifted in the service of the state ? 

Or seek to lift the veil which hid that solemn parting 
when the stricken wife crept in alone beneath those 
solemn arches to take her last look, and to sunder the 
last ties that bound her to the earthly form of the 
husband of her youth, the pride of her life, and the 
example of her children ? 

And shall I follow again that strange procession, 






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fluttering its black drapery, and speeding swiftly over 
valley and mountain, always through long lines of 
silent, sorrowful faces, gathered from city and town, from 
hamlet and farm, simply to gaze in unspoken sorrow and 
awe upon the martyr cut down in his prime by a foul 
hand, and borne to the scenes where he was equipped for 
his labors, where his people might pay their last tribute 
and render thanks to the Giver of one who 



and might 



' Cared not to be great — 
But as he saved or served the state 



" Render him to the mould, 
Where he shall rest forever 

Anion? the wise and the bold ? " 



Ao-ain I ask, of what avail to recount these scenes, so 
vivid in all minds, or to recall the incidents of those long 
days of agony and suspense, which are a part of our daily 
thoughts and will be told to coming generations as one of 
the two strange tragedies of assassination that marked the 
first century of the American Republic? If I should do 
anything, it would be only to point to his wounds — -"those 
poor dumb mouths, and bid them speak for me." 

And once more shall 1 dare to add fuel to the flame of 
popular indignation that would have consumed the assas- 
sin but for the shield which the law he has outraged held 
before him ? Shall I seek to define the nature and, mo- 
tives of his crime, or declare the just measure and place 
of its punishment ? Oh, no ! I would not mar the dignity 
of this last hour of obsequies nor disturb the nobler emo- 
tions that lift us up above the waves of passion by giving 
a word or thought to the murderer. 

" Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." Let 
us leave him to the present hell of his own remorse, and 
to the orderly and passionless machinery of legal retribu- 
tion as the only proper instrument of divine justice. Let 



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us only say, when we remember that bruised and wasted 
frame now sleeping by the shore of Lake Erie, as Marc 
Antony exclaimed as he stood alone by the body of Caesar : 

" Thou art the ruins of the noblest man 
That ever lived, in the tide of times ; 
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood !" 

What, then, my friends, shall I say that shall accord 
with the feelings that have brought us here to-night, when 
at last the grave has closed over him, to testify our appre- 
ciation of his work done for us, our sorrow that he was 
not spared to close it, our faith that 

" Doubts not that for one so true 
There must be other, nobler work to do, 
And victor he must ever be," 

and our joy in the assurance that 

" His triumph will be sung 
By some yet unmoulded tongue 
Far on in summers that we shall not see ? " 

What can I say? It shall not be of the past. I will 
"speak no more of his renown." 

" The dead march wails in the people's ears, 
The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tears, 
The black earth yawns, the mortal disappears." 

" Ashes to ashes, dust to 'lust : 
He is gone who seemed so great, 
Gone ; but nothing can bereave him 
Of the force he made his own 
Being here, and we believe him 
Something far advanced in state, 
And that he wears a truer crown 
Than any wreath that man can weave him."' 

Let us turn to the present and the future. In the fine 
words of George Macdonald, " Yesterday is as much our 
past as the bygone century. " Garfield is dead. Washing- 
ton, Jefferson, Lincoln, Garfield, stand as landmarks to 
guide us, and monuments to inspire us, in the narrow 
limits of the first century of our national life ; two of them 



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encircled with the crown and breathing the perpetual 
inspiration of the martyr — the last anointed with the con- 
secration of the sympathy of the entire civilized world. 

What have we to rejoice in, as we now shall put aside 
the tokens of sorrow and address ourselves to the duties 
of the immediate present and of the future which shall 
soon become history? 

Nearly twenty centuries ago the master of the Roman 
world, which then embraced our mother country as one 
of its remote outlying islands, was stabbed in the Senate 
House, and fell dead at the foot of Pompey's statue, the 
victim, not of one man's wicked frenzy, but of a political 
cabal. When, many centuries after, the master of the ex- 
pression of human emotions, in a language then unknown, 
strove to paint the passions and hopes of the hour, excited 
by that tragedy, he placed Marc Antony alone above 
the bleeding body of Csesar and put into his mouth this 
prophecy, too well fulfilled : 

" Over thy wounds now do I prophesy 

A curse shall fall upon the limbs of men, 
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife 

Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; 

***** 

And Ca?sar's spirit, ranging- for revenge, 
With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, 
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice 
Cry ' Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; 
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth, 
With carrion men groaning for burial." 

What a contrast to this picture do we display in this 
new country of modern freedom and order, grown up 
beyond the distant seas, on a continent over which 
the Roman eagle never swept ! If in some future century, 
another, and it may be a greater master of the English 
tongue, then become universal as a vehicle of human 
speech, shall strive to paint our tragedy of assassination, 
how different will be his picture ! No angry passions 



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embroiling the people of the dead ruler in civil war or 
domestic fury. No spirit of the slaughtered chief rang- 
ing for revenge, and letting slip the dogs of partisan strife ; 
but rather the people hushed for months in suspense over 
the danger of their beloved head, tortured by his long 
agony, striving in prayer and hope for his deliverance, 
and at last laying him to rest, 

" To the noise of the mourning of a mighty nation 
Mourning when their leaders fall," 

and then soberly and quietly turning to the duties of the 
present, and laboring to gather up and perpetuate the 
fruits of his life — too brief for aught but his own fame, — 
and his own gentle and benignant spirit hovering in 
benediction over the country which he served. 

The historian will have to speak of passions cooled, not 
inflamed, by the long horrors of the tragedy ; of the vast 
machinery of government moving through the months of 
inability, and across the confines of death, without a jar 
or a fear ; of the successor, upon whose unwilling shoulders 
the law had cast the burden, hastening to weep over the 
dead body of his former chief, following him reverently 
and sadly to his tomb, and then manfully taking up his 
load, supported by the universal voice of those who 
mourned for him, and fulfilling, as we fully trust he will, 
the lofty purposes and aims of the illustrious dead. 

And more than this, that future painter of the features 
of the tragedy it has been our pain to witness, will dwell, 
with the pride of the higher civilization he will then have 
reached, on the fact that this crime and its attendant 
circumstances of prolonged private agony and public 
grief, seemed to lift this nation and all mankind to a 
higher moral plane ; that, sharp as it was, it was in the 
broadest sense that " touch of nature " which " makes the 
whole world kin ; " that, with the aid of those electric 



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nerves which now bind all mankind together, the fount- 
ains of human sympathy were opened as never before in 
the history of man, and flowed in streams of moral 
renovation all over the earth. 

He will tell how the Queen of Great Britain and 
Empress of India stepped from her throne and came on 
the wings of the lightning to whisper words of consola- 
tion to her fellow- woman sitting by the bed of suffering 
and struggling between hope and despair, and when 
despair prevailed, placed as it were with her own hands 
upon the coffin, a token of her grief as a woman and her 
sympathy as a ruler. 

He will recall that the London Times, the expression 
of the highest phases of thought and feeling in the Old 
World, declared, while the funeral train was on its way, 
" Such a spectacle has never been presented as the 
mourning with which the whole civilized world is honor- 
ing the late President Garfield. Emperors and Kings, 
Senates and Ministries, are in spirit his pall-bearers ; but 
their peoples, from the hjghest to the lowest, claim to be 
equally visible and audible as sorrowing assistants." 
And that the London Standard said, " The universality 
of sympathy displayed with the American people in their 
season of dark distress is a circumstance that cannot be 
overlooked. All civilization, by this one blow, has been 
put into mourning, and a chastened feeling pervades the 
homes and hearths of the human race." And that an 
Englishman wrote yesterday, while the muffled peals 
were still sounding, these words, which surely mark a 
large advance towards a higher plane of human nature: 
"The tones of the bells will find their way across the sea 
to-morrow, and reach those standing at the grave-side in 
Ohio, and help to teach the world that three thousand 
miles of ocean cannot divide the sympathies of two 
kindred nations when the hand of affliction has been laid 
heavily on the one or the other." 



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He will tell that the " Dead March " is sounding in the 
cathedral of St. Paul's, and the notes of sorrow reverber- 
ating through the arches of the Vatican and awakening 
the echoes of the spot where Caesar fell ; and that even 
while I speak, the invisible messenger, swifter than the 
fabled Mercury, brings to us tidings that in Cairo, under 
the shadow of the Pyramids, memorial services were held 
but a few hours ago, — confirming the statement also 
made to-day by the preacher in Cleveland, that three 
hundred millions of the human race are, in some form 
and degree, uniting in these solemn obsequies. 

He will also recall that the Americans in England met 
in Exeter Hall on Saturday, to express their sympathy 
with Mrs. Garfield, and their sense of the affectionate 
solicitude of the Queen and people of England during 
the long period of suffering ; and that the great American 
poet who presided over that meeting announced that Sir 
Moses Monteflore. now in his ninety-seventh year, had 
telegraphed to Palestine to request that prayers be offered 
for the President in the synagogues of the four holy 
cities. How striking is this fact. How it elevates our 
view of human nature, that a Hebrew noble of England, 
born before the inauguration of Washington, should 
speed across the continent, and beneath the seas, a call 
to prayer by the descendants of Abraham and Jacob, in 
the cradle of the Christian faith, for the twentieth Presi- 
dent of the American Republic ! Surely we may rejoice 
in our grief when we reflect that incidents like these now 
passing before our eyes, and these currents of human 
feeling in which we ourselves are borne, encircling the 
whole earth, will be recalled hereafter as a grand phase in 
the history of mankind, and as marking a great step v 
onward in the slow but steady march of civilization, and 
in the gradual refinement and elevation of the average 
character and feelings of the human race. 



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And yet, again, this calamity has another balm. It 
will be told by the future historian of our tragedy, sur- 
veying the course of states and empires, that the phrase 
that has so long marked the changes of dynasties, so 
often spoke^flippantly, and sometimes almost sneeringly, 
" The king is dead, long live the king," acquired a new 
and better significance upon this succession of ours, 
tragic as it was, in the great office of the President of 
the United States of America. It will be shown, with a 
just pride, that although it happened at a time when 
partisan zeal had been inflamed to unusual bitterness, yet 
while life and death hung so long in the balance, the 
strife of tongues was hushed, and when at last the change 
so widely dreaded came, the wheels of the great machin- 
ery of state moved on as quietly as the funeral train, and 
the successor pointed out by the law, assumed his trust 
with the generous support of the whole people, and with 
the personal dignity and solemnity befitting the great 
transaction. And, moreover, that our representative at 
the Court of St. James, speaking to his sorrowful country- 
men, but in the ear of the British people, expressed the 
sentiment " Long live the king," in these striking words : 

" There is no indecorum in saying what is known to 
all — that the new President is a gentleman of culture, of 
admittedly high intelligence, of unimpeachable character, 
of proved administrative ability, and that he enters on 
his high duties with a full sense of what such succession 
implies. I am not one of those who believe that 
Democracy, more than any other form of government, 
will go of itself; but, in common with you all, I have 
imperturbable faith in the honesty, intelligence and good 
sense of the American people, and in the destiny of the 
American Republic." 

And yet another subject of congratulation in our hour 
of mourning. 



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Just eighteen years before the day when Garfield died, 
he had been grappling with his fellow-citizens in the field 
of Chickamauga— in civil war. To-day there is no manly 
heart in all the South, then burning with the flames of 
that strife, which does not now beat in unison with all 
the world in admiration of his virtues and in sympathy 
with his sufferings. The example and the trial of the 
soldier President seem to have had some vicarious efficacy 
to pour the last healing balm upon the closing wounds of 
our great war, to blot the lines of section with the last 
ramparts of the battle-fields, and to bind us together in a 
common brotherhood, rejoicing in the advancing glory of 
our country. 

It would seem as if North or South were ready to 
repeat now together the majestic words of this martyr, 
spoken on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Lincoln : 
" There are times in the history of men and nations when 
they stand so near the veil which separates mortals from 
immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, 
that they can almost hear the beatings and feel the pulsa- 
tions of the great heart of the Infinite. Through such a 
time, this nation has passed. Awe-stricken by his voice, 
the American people kneel in tearful reverence and make 
a solemn covenant with Him and with each other, that 
all the glories of this nation shall be restored, and the 
temples of freedom and justice shall be rebuilt and shall 
survive forever." 

And now, before the tomb is sealed, and the divine 
watch is set, let us heed one lesson more. It is not true, 
in any wide sense, that the evil that men do lives after 
them and the good is interred with their bones. Evil 
character perishes and is forgotten. The example of men 
like Garfield lives forever and is a perpetual benediction. 
He who shall live in a far distant age, in the riper glories 
of this republic, and shall behold in the capital, on the 



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shores of Lake Erie, and even in distant lands, the monu- 
ments and statues which a grateful and sympathizing 
world will raise in commemoration of James A. Garfield, 
will know better than we can tell, the blessings that have 
flowed from the example of such a life and the spectacle 
of such a death. The young of many coming generations 
will ponder over his great deeds, and dwell on the pathetic 
story, and will be inspired with noblet-impulses and stim- 
ulated to higher endeavor, and so will bear on steadily 
the republic of freedom, of which they will be a part, to 
higher and yet higher planes in the civilization of the 
world. 

They will remember that on a scroll hanging to-day 
above his coffin in Cleveland is written : 

" Life's race well run, 
Life's work well done, 
Life's crown well won, 
Now comes rest." 

They will know by his life and by his death — and the 
knowledge will be a never-ceasing fountain of public health 
— that duty leads most surely to earthly as well as 
heavenly honor and reward. Therefore, 

" While the races of mankind endure 
Let his great example stand, 
Colossal, seen of every hand, 
And keep the warrior firm, the statesman pure, 
Till in all lands and thro' all human story, 
The path of duty be the way to glory." 



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October 4. 

At a meeting of the Citizen's Committee, held at the 
Board of Trade rooms in the evening, it was resolved, 
" That a committee of five be appointed to prepare a 
pamphlet containing a complete history of the proceed- 
ings of the Citizen's Committee, and of the Memorial 
Services, and that the distribution of the same be left 
with the Committee ; and that all surplus funds in hands 
of Committee be held for benefit of the Michigan 
sufferers." 

The Chair appointed as such Committee, Hon. William 
A. Righter, Dr. C. S. Stockton, Dr. H. H. Tichenor, 
Senator William H. Francis, Frederick S Fish. 



In accordance with the above action of the Citizen's 
Committee, the Committee then appointed have en- 
deavored to carry out the spirit of the resolution, and 
respectfully present this pamphlet as the result of their 
labors. 

WILLIAM A. RIGHTER, Chairman. 
CHARLES S. STOCKTON, 
HIRAM H. TICHENOR, 
WILLIAM H. FRANCIS, 
FREDERICK S. FISH, Secretary. 



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